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Thousands of pastors, students, englishwords of greek origin and laypeople have found the Interlinear Bible to be a time-saving tool for researching the subtle nuances englishwords of greek origin and layers of meaning within the original biblical languages.

List of Englishwords of French origin - A great amount of words of French origin have entered the English language.

List of Englishwords of Hawaiian origin - A number of Hawaiian words have made their way into the English language.

The words abbot, abbess and abbey are all descendants of Aramaic abba.

The word was chaoua in the late 16th century, and by the early 17th century it was already coffe, and by the mid-17th century it was coffa.

Since this column was originally posted, a reader has indicated that the dashboard prevented rocks and mud from "dashing" riders in buggies and buckboards, and this sounds like a credible explanation for the word'sorigin.

www.takeourword.com /arc_logi.html (10170 words)

List of English words of Persian origin -(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)

Many words of Persian origin have made their way into the English language through different, often circuitous, routes.

In contrast, intrepid English traders operated in Mediterranean seaports of the Levant from the 1570s, and some vocabulary describing features of Ottoman culture found their way into the English language.

Other words of Persian origin found their way into European languages— and eventually reached English at second-hand— through the Moorish-Christian cultural interface in the Iberian peninsula during the Middle Ages thus being transmitted through Arabic or, much later, through Hindi during the British Raj.

It is listed as the official or co-official language of over 45 countries and is spoken extensively in other countries where it has no official status.

Because the English underclass cooked for the Norman upper class, the words for most domestic animals are English (ox, cow, calf, sheep, swine, deer) while the words for the meats derived from them are French (beef, veal, mutton, pork, bacon, venison).

English belongs to the Indo-European family of languages, which is a large collection of languages with a common ancestor.

American Indian contributions include achievements in the fields of political and social ideology, language, medicine, mathematics, science, foods, agricultural processing techniques and technology, clothing materials and styles, art and architecture, transportation technology, sports and games.

Common Englishwords such as moose, raccoon, moccasin and toboggan are of American Indianorigin.

Approximately 60% of the food upon which the world´s population depends was developed centuries ago by American Indian agrarians who domesticated crops which include among others: six species of maize (150 varieties), five major species of beans, hundreds of varieties of potatoes, squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, peppers, peanuts, chocolate, vanilla, sunflowers and avocados.

However, this article will be concerned with loanwords, that is, words in English that derive from Persian, either directly, or more often, via one or more intermediary languages.

In contrast, intrepid English traders operated in Mediterranean seaports of the Levant from the 1570s, and some vocabulary describing features of Ottoman culture found their way into the English language.

Other words of Persian origin found their way into European languages— and eventually reached English at second-hand— through the Moorish-Christian cultural interface in the Iberian peninsula during the Middle Ages thus being transmitted through Arabic or, much later, through Hindi during the British Raj.

Hence, millions of dollars are spent to teach English as a second language to Mexican, Asian, Indian, Persian, Oriental and other non-English speaking people, while fl children must be content with attempting to grasp knowledge imparted to them in a language that is not their own.

As against the latest Oxford English Dictionary which lists only 600 Englishwords of Indianorigin Hanklyn Janklyn has 2,000 entries, explaining not only their meaning, but their historical roots and context as well.

For ten years he compiled long lists of Indianwords he came across in English sources, primarily newspapers, with only Henry Yule's Hobson Jobson-a dictionary of Anglo-Indian words written a century ago-as his inspiration.

Not very original, but Nair does show glimpses of brilliance, when she is not trying to imitate Roy.

The list of endangered species is published by FWS, Department of the Interior, and should be referenced when inquiring whether a proposed project has the potential to affect endangered species or critical habitats.

Listed below are terms, phrases, and definitions used by architects, engineers, contractors, and managers in the performance of a construction project.

This listing may be used by non-construction professionals as a guide to understanding the terminology used for their project.

Because my Indian ancestors were on both sides of the struggle between the Puritans and the New England Indians and I am well versed in my cultural heritage and history both as an Anishnabeg (Algokin) and Hodenosione (Iroquois), it was felt that I could bring a unique insight to the project.

Squanto was originally from the village of Patuxet (Pa TUK et) and a member of the Pokanokit Wampanoag nation.

INDIAN CORN Corn was a very important crop for the people of the northeast woodlands.

Some of the words are English, but some are French and German words that got into English.

Hobson Jobson Dictionary of Anglo-Indian terms: WORDS of Indianorigin have been insinuating themselves into English ever since the end of the reign of Elizabeth and the beginning of that of King James.

A Latin-English/English-Latin Dictionary Client (Java): This Java applet was written by Djun M. Kim, of the University of British Columbia Mathematics Department, based on a Latin wordlist compiled by Lynn Nelson at the University of Kansas.

Moreover, those who are familiar with Malayalam can easily comprehend that these ancient Tamilwords have only managed to survive in Malayalam (like many other ancient Tamilwords currently in use in Kannada and Telugu) and the people of Kanyakumari use them even today only because of their close proximity to Travancore region of Kerala.

Padmanabhan does not include these in his list, probably because they are not used by the people of Kanyakumari.

On the contrary, the theme of ancient Indian literatures by and large were centred around the objective of achieving Moksha through religious practices.

The lexicon includes this word which is actually a compliment to a beautiful girl.

Award winning novels of the growing tribe of Indian and Diaspora writers, such as Salman Rushdie, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Vikram Seth and Arundhati Roy have ensured that words of Indianorigin become part of English.

Among the new Indianwords that make an entry into the lexicon are `Bhagwan' (Indian God), `bhakti' (devotional worship directed to a supreme deity), `bhajan' (a devotional song), bhang (cannabis) and `adda' (informal conversation).

This list may seem exhaustive, but it's not-- the OED lists a few hundred more words.

They're Americanisms, and the former at least recalls the Cherokee negative, a nasalized high vowel.

And on the third hand-- you need a lot of hands in philology-- nasals with negatives and central vowels are suspiciously common across the world (like "mama" or "papa"), and are thus hard to attribute to borrowing.

www.zompist.com /indianwd.html (149 words)

Transracial and Transcultural Adoption(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)

The seven parenting techniques listed below were compiled from books and articles on adoption and by interviewing experts in transracial and transcultural adoption.

Tells the story of a Korean-born 16-year-old boy named John who was adopted by a Caucasian American family at the age of 10 months as he encounters racial prejudice at school and suffers blows to his self-esteem and cultural identity.

The early colonists began borrowing words from friendly Native Americans almost from the moment of their first contact, and many of those names remain in our everyday English language today.

Idaho -A coined name with an invented Indian meaning: "gem of the mountains;" originally suggested for the Pike's Peak mining territory (Colorado), then applied to the new mining territory of the Pacific Northwest.

I was supposed to be doing this for my english class and I thought it was a weird assignment to find out words that are indian that we use today but I actually find it really interesting!

Includes a list of his compositions, an autobiographical sketch and comments by oth´(r)s about this grea¯ composer, and newspaper reviews of his life and compositions.

Indian Rhythmic Cycles - a description of the taala system of North and South India, with definitions, pronunciation guides, notation of solkattu, MIDI files, midi maps and descriptions of tabla and mridangam, and information about the talas.

Indian Classical Newsgroup RMIC - with carnatic, hindustani primers and beginner's lists, plus archives, hindustani and carnatic ragas, percussion primer, great hindustani performances, equivalent notes in western and indian classical, tamil film songs based on ragas, list of tyaagaraaja kritis, info on tyaagaraaja, list of annayya kritis, links to ns sundar's page.